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that could thrive outside of the traditional college environment this. is not for everyone and it is for a few. and remember most entrepreneurs will not really succeed this. is a high risk venture. >> it is probably true here, at aggregate with the entrepreneurial adventures is the aggregate. some people will have to be able to make it big. bill. go ahead. >> we have the curve here. actually the bell curve. any standard will work ill to be conjoined with that and any standard will work ill and not to be much use if you pose universal genius. the zuckerberg, gates. jobs. it works anyway. madison did not learn at all. princeton. madison knew a lot and read a lot. the book is not written for those folks. arguably, i think based on the evidence of what i could tell from reading the jobs book and the other pro files of successful people. issue live in a ranch house in california use your garage to play the guitar or invent machines and you will make it much more likely than college. >> i this i that may be true. questions here? just kidding. >> my name is fat
that could thrive outside of the traditional college environment this. is not for everyone and it is for a few. and remember most entrepreneurs will not really succeed this. is a high risk venture. >> it is probably true here, at aggregate with the entrepreneurial adventures is the aggregate. some people will have to be able to make it big. bill. go ahead. >> we have the curve here. actually the bell curve. any standard will work ill to be conjoined with that and any standard will...
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because it was pursued in a very insecure environment. three, consult. this was what the iraqis said to me over and over again that the united states did not do. the prime minister said 52 billion should have brought us more, if you had consulted with us about what we really needed at the outset, then we would have benefited from your -- from your investment, your substantial investment. consultation also was an issue that the u.s. interviewees raised. bill burns, secretary of state, said we tried to do it all and tried to do it our own way. and in recognition that from the outside that the c.p.a., the coalition provisional authority, the u.s.-led governance of iraq for the first 14 months, did not engage sufficiently with the iraqis about what they really needed. fourth, uniformity. there was a lack of uniform systems in iraq. agencies operated in their stovepipes, carrying out their missions, using their own contracting approaches, using their own oversight methods, using their own i.t. systems. and as a result, you had stovepiped data. and when you ha
because it was pursued in a very insecure environment. three, consult. this was what the iraqis said to me over and over again that the united states did not do. the prime minister said 52 billion should have brought us more, if you had consulted with us about what we really needed at the outset, then we would have benefited from your -- from your investment, your substantial investment. consultation also was an issue that the u.s. interviewees raised. bill burns, secretary of state, said we...
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if you care about the environment am a fundamentally, you have to care about workers rights and women's rights and you have to see that unless we are together, the labor movement, if they are in -- if they are not in office, forget addressing climate change, forget all of those things. the first thing that can bring us together is that while we have differences and while there are real policy debates, the underlying balance of power we need for people's voices to be heard, from those who want to profit to make sure they make more money than the workers, we have to change the balance of power. there's a set of leaders and organizers that realize it is not about ec, it is about being on the ground and shifting the balance of power that is number one. number two, these folks are amazing and easy to work with. fundamentally, if you believe the balance of power, if you get the history we are a part of in working to actually fill the promise of having a democracy in this country and that our change depends on it, it all flows from there. >> one thing that is exciting is that this is going on
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"green is the new red" provides an excellent look at the post-9/11 assault on the animal rights and environment movements, and labeling activists and terrorists. last but not least, grainne o'neill, lawyer for the hacktivist jeremy hammond. she recieved a jd from columbia law, and a ba in mathematics and computer science from cornell. she was a public defender in new orleans.she became direct or of the legal systems of technology, and developed new tools to enhance the performance of her fellow attorneys. a round of applause for these panelists. [applause] i am going to start off with an introduction, laying a framework about what is information activism, and why it is important for democracy. this is an excellent quote. this is thomas jefferson. it lays out two important things, i think. information is necessary, a necessary fuel for the democratic fire. the mechanism that was used for this in the founding period really was the separation of powers and in the bill of rights. the freedom of the press. it is the mechanism that allows information to be desseminated to the public. when we talk abo
"green is the new red" provides an excellent look at the post-9/11 assault on the animal rights and environment movements, and labeling activists and terrorists. last but not least, grainne o'neill, lawyer for the hacktivist jeremy hammond. she recieved a jd from columbia law, and a ba in mathematics and computer science from cornell. she was a public defender in new orleans.she became direct or of the legal systems of technology, and developed new tools to enhance the performance of...
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so is women coming to the senate, you also have a much more polarizing environment. they do emphasize that if it helps them to achieve their political goals and they deemphasize it they are concerned, if you take the audience example of hillary clinton. >> i love that example and you talk about her a lot. >> it had not been a senator in new york for a long time and she knew that she was going to be running for president in as a woman she knew to establish her credentials. she spent time talking to the military officials and establishing herself and talking to other people and cosponsoring bills. she actually shied away from doing too many women's issues and oriented things she knew that she needed to establish expertise elsewhere. many are concerned that people would show you is having a weakness. >> okay, so you look at the 107th and 108th congress and am wondering if you could just go through life he thought the four-year span at the beginning of the last decade with a timely muscat the best information about how women were achieving a policy goals. >> part of it w
so is women coming to the senate, you also have a much more polarizing environment. they do emphasize that if it helps them to achieve their political goals and they deemphasize it they are concerned, if you take the audience example of hillary clinton. >> i love that example and you talk about her a lot. >> it had not been a senator in new york for a long time and she knew that she was going to be running for president in as a woman she knew to establish her credentials. she spent...
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my son is an environment at science major my daughter majored imajored in spanish. they're bright, intelligent, they've worked extremely hard to get where they are. i implore you not to leave them with ridiculous amounts of debt by allowing the interest rate to double. " the stories are pretty consistent, mr. president. that these students are struggling, they already are thinking about buying a house, starting a business, saving for retirement, even though they're in their 20's. they know the challenges are greater in this generation than previous generations. also what's really obvious in these letters is how the impact this has on families, not just the student that's -- whose 25 or 22 or 19 or 28 facing this lifelong -- or these years of paying off student loans, but what it means to the fathe -- te family, the family that maybe takes a second mortgage on the house to help their son or dawrkts the family had a faces foreclosure because of the financial problems, the family that simply can't help their student, as brokenhearted as that make a parent, they can't h
my son is an environment at science major my daughter majored imajored in spanish. they're bright, intelligent, they've worked extremely hard to get where they are. i implore you not to leave them with ridiculous amounts of debt by allowing the interest rate to double. " the stories are pretty consistent, mr. president. that these students are struggling, they already are thinking about buying a house, starting a business, saving for retirement, even though they're in their 20's. they know...
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take that framework to the today's environment. maybe there's a tradeoff that more policy is helpful, obviously, on the usual ground but it creates financial stability. you have to do the tradeoff. we're very far from our objective on the unemployment rate or the labor market more generally. when you do the trade off and you do it under today's condition, i think the trade off comes down to one in which you want to be accommodated. i think we have the -- here's the way to say it. if funds it a rate goes lower, we would have it at minus 2. we're going to be at zero either way. you can believe it is important think about this in the general framework and we shouldn't get lazy and dismiss it. when we get closer to full employment the balance might tilt. again, i think the goal this time around was to clarify the policy as opposed to mod late it left or right. >> ok, i think on that note we will conclude to stay on time. jeremy, thank you so much. [applause] >> we talked more about the u.s. economy, the june jobs report and the 7le.6%
take that framework to the today's environment. maybe there's a tradeoff that more policy is helpful, obviously, on the usual ground but it creates financial stability. you have to do the tradeoff. we're very far from our objective on the unemployment rate or the labor market more generally. when you do the trade off and you do it under today's condition, i think the trade off comes down to one in which you want to be accommodated. i think we have the -- here's the way to say it. if funds it a...
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if you're in low credit environment, leverage doesn't work. reinvesting money by buying stocks or expanding your business. companies like 3m, microsoft or microsoft or johnson & johnson. these are fairly different industry, all of which are still reasonable, valued stocks. all of which have reasonable dividend that they pay to, 2, 2.5, almost 3% in one. cases all of which are growing the dividend. they're reinvesting their proceeds. they're buying their own stock with buybacks and their profit margins are 15 to 20. in the case of microsoft's situation, over 20%. heavy return on assets across the board. that's how you make money in a slower growth environment is by having a lot of profit generation and reinvesting that in the company. liz: let's talk about the loan atmosphere right now. we know that the government has wanted banks to loan more and if you're looking for, some type of a reactionary trade to that, what jason, do you look at? >> one of the things you can look at, banks have this kind of falls outside of our bucket but banks, partic
if you're in low credit environment, leverage doesn't work. reinvesting money by buying stocks or expanding your business. companies like 3m, microsoft or microsoft or johnson & johnson. these are fairly different industry, all of which are still reasonable, valued stocks. all of which have reasonable dividend that they pay to, 2, 2.5, almost 3% in one. cases all of which are growing the dividend. they're reinvesting their proceeds. they're buying their own stock with buybacks and their...
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>> well, i think first of all, a stable international environment. for them to reach economic goals. you can't think about that ithout thinking about u.s.-china relations. and i think that's probably the main thing. particularly this new leading team. over and emphasizing over that we should build a new of relationship between powers. >> major powers. >> yeah. e should show the world that the emergence of a new major power doesn't necessarily mean chaos and war and so on. i think they're very interested in this, in trying to build it. politicians erican that go over there usually get a eally great welcome, even the ones that aren't so friendly. >> so, as i mentioned, i spent ast week in beijing with a number of senior security officials, including wearing the pla. uniforms of the it was really interesting. one of the themes that came of ugh was the theme strategicic mistrust. and the argument that was given as for example in iraq and afghanistan, a large number of american troops have been killed friendly ly by uk fire. nobody except real anglo folks
>> well, i think first of all, a stable international environment. for them to reach economic goals. you can't think about that ithout thinking about u.s.-china relations. and i think that's probably the main thing. particularly this new leading team. over and emphasizing over that we should build a new of relationship between powers. >> major powers. >> yeah. e should show the world that the emergence of a new major power doesn't necessarily mean chaos and war and so on. i...
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so when men come into the senate you are a much more polarized environment and that affect. so in terms of utilizing the gender they do emphasize as it helps them achieve their political. and they deemphasized as they are concerned on the political goal. they take the obvious example of hillary clinton. >> host: you talk about her a lot. >> guest: there hasn't been a senator from the armed services in a very long time and that is because she knew she was going to be running for president and all of those that needed to establish her credentials so she spent time talking to the military officials and establishing the officers talking to other people on the committee cosponsoring bills, and she actually shied away from too many oriented things because she knew everybody knew that was her expertise. so it is emphasized when it is helpful and deemphasized when you are concerned people will see it as showing you as having a weakness. >> host: you may look at the 170 and 108th congress and i wonder if you could go through why you felt that for years man at the beginning of the las
so when men come into the senate you are a much more polarized environment and that affect. so in terms of utilizing the gender they do emphasize as it helps them achieve their political. and they deemphasized as they are concerned on the political goal. they take the obvious example of hillary clinton. >> host: you talk about her a lot. >> guest: there hasn't been a senator from the armed services in a very long time and that is because she knew she was going to be running for...
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partisan and more polarized, so women come into the senate, you're in a much more partisan and polarized environment with a lot of effings, so in terms of utilizing their gender, they do emphasize if it helps them to achieve their political goals, and they de-emphasize it when they are concerned it could hurt their political goals. if we take the very obvious example of hillary clinton -- >> host: right, i love that example. you talk about that a lot. >> guest: one of the reasons in the first place is because the armed services in a very longer time because she knew that she was going to be running for president, and that as a woman, she had to establish her credentials, and she spent time talking to military officials, establishing herself with flag officers, and talking to other people on the committee, cosponsoring bills, and she actually shied away from doing too many women's issues, women's oriented things because she knew that everybody knew that was her expertise and she had to establish expertise elsewhere. gender is emphasized when helpful, de-emphasized when you are concerned that people s
partisan and more polarized, so women come into the senate, you're in a much more partisan and polarized environment with a lot of effings, so in terms of utilizing their gender, they do emphasize if it helps them to achieve their political goals, and they de-emphasize it when they are concerned it could hurt their political goals. if we take the very obvious example of hillary clinton -- >> host: right, i love that example. you talk about that a lot. >> guest: one of the reasons in...
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or. >> deride a stable international environment. it is economical and you can't think about that without getting involved. they should build a new type of relationship between the great powers, the major powers. you should show the world that the emergence doesn't necessarily where chaos and so on. and very interested in this trying to build it and that's why the american politicians get a great welcome even the ones so friendly. >> there is a member of senior security officials including the length uniforms. it's really interesting and one of the things that came through this strategic mistrust. for example in iraq and afghanistan a large number of american troops have been killed accidentally hit in the u.k. and nobody accept them thinks this is on purpose or the reason for a crisis between the u.s. and england that they said that anything between the u.s. and china notably the embassy balkan was taken as having been purposeful and it is accepted. what do you think are the main grounds for the chinese strategic mistrust for us and
or. >> deride a stable international environment. it is economical and you can't think about that without getting involved. they should build a new type of relationship between the great powers, the major powers. you should show the world that the emergence doesn't necessarily where chaos and so on. and very interested in this trying to build it and that's why the american politicians get a great welcome even the ones so friendly. >> there is a member of senior security officials...
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a state organizes the policy environment for that finance and delivery. there, again, i think they have different effects. >> but if you give 100 to the state to care for somebody, and the state give $90s to the burns plan. >> 100% of the cost were there capitation and who wrote the bill. i would agree it's not the same. that's not how i see the program. >> okay. it may be an issue of perception. i yield back. >> the chair thank the gentleman. did you want to respond to the remarks regarding reforms? i apologize if she had to leave. i want to give you an opportunity to respond quickly, please. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i appreciate the opportunity. in my testimony, i referred to the florida reform pilot. the facts, clear. the florida reform pilot outperformed in 64 percent the cases. it higher level of patient sphoox. perhaps the best validation of how this approach of pay centered pro patient protaxpayer is working the fact that the obama administration approved the waiver. t a proven bipartisan approach that saves money, improves health, and produces
a state organizes the policy environment for that finance and delivery. there, again, i think they have different effects. >> but if you give 100 to the state to care for somebody, and the state give $90s to the burns plan. >> 100% of the cost were there capitation and who wrote the bill. i would agree it's not the same. that's not how i see the program. >> okay. it may be an issue of perception. i yield back. >> the chair thank the gentleman. did you want to respond to...
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. >> we must of this massive destruction to the environment. another trading commodity gets the mainative as rivers start disappearing. >> so much so that land is disappearing fast. he has eight children and has been making charcoal for more than 80 years. he digs up peat and sets it on fire. opportunitiesew here. charcoal is the only way that i can freak -- feed my family. >> that are trying to cut off funding to al-shabbab fighters. this is a resource that is yet to be interrupted. >> there is a dollar tax for every bag of charcoal, and they get $440 -- >>. >> we found evidence that charcoal is still shipped out. the local government here has called for a temporary lifting of the band, to illegally export their current charcoal. they say is too late to save the trees that have already been cut down. al jazeera, somalia. >> hello, a warm welcome to "the journal" on dw. these are the headlines this hour. the united states increases pressure on russia as edward snowden says he wants temporary asylum there. officials blame the devastating train c
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we can find a way that is good for the environment and good for business. it is good for our planet and bottom-line. when it is missing we tried some product. yet to search to find those intersections. it is an intersection that benefits our customers and shareholders. when you can find that it really works. >> you are one of the mayors challenge which was an incentivized competition. this is one way of having share prosperity. -- came up with what >> if you look at the bashan -- basic functions of these have to provide, is there a way to provide this in a completely new way. you have to do something with the trash. we have decided that we will that endthe trash out up in the dump. we depend on individuals to make that choice. technology is there. it has not been applied to this skill. want to see if we can prove it. benefit to thee process? this is what started as thinking in this direction. we have been kicking it for a long time. we had a lots of ideas. we said we achieve all these other ones. let's put one out where we do not know whether we can do it.
we can find a way that is good for the environment and good for business. it is good for our planet and bottom-line. when it is missing we tried some product. yet to search to find those intersections. it is an intersection that benefits our customers and shareholders. when you can find that it really works. >> you are one of the mayors challenge which was an incentivized competition. this is one way of having share prosperity. -- came up with what >> if you look at the bashan --...
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theou care about environment am a fundamentally, you have to care about workers rights and women's rights and you have to see that unless we are together, the labor movement, if they are in -- if they are not in office, forget addressing climate change, forget all of those things. bringrst thing that can us together is that while we have differences and while are real policy debates, the underlying balance of power we need for people's voices to be heard, from those who want profit to make sure they make more money than the workers, we have to change the balance of power. there's a set of leaders and organizers that realize it is not about ec, it is about being on the ground and shifting the balance of power that is number one. number two, these folks are amazing and easy to work with. fundamentally, if you believe the balance of power, if you get the history we are a part of in working to actually fill the promise of having a democracy in this country and that our change depends on it, it all flows from there. >> one thing that is exciting is that this is going on at the state level. i w
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the less secure in the environment, the smaller the project. the more secure, the more substantial you can pursue. >> to follow up on that, in iraq, you have the assessments being done both about security and about engagement. , thoseabsence of usoco assessments were being done by our ambassador and those assessments were being done by the generals on the ground. where are they on this proposal? did the generals or the ambassadors feel that they would have benefited by having this? >> he supports the idea of having it. >> when the u.s. is operating overseas, the ambassador in iraq and with the u.s. operates elsewhere, it is ambassador who heads the effort in the country. the commanding general heads the defense operations. i understand what was said. where would it fit in this command? >> the mission is discrete and will to find. clarity will provide certainty to both agencies and the contractors. it would be somewhat like fema. its mission is to oversee the relief or reconstruction activity in the affected country. the president would declare
the less secure in the environment, the smaller the project. the more secure, the more substantial you can pursue. >> to follow up on that, in iraq, you have the assessments being done both about security and about engagement. , thoseabsence of usoco assessments were being done by our ambassador and those assessments were being done by the generals on the ground. where are they on this proposal? did the generals or the ambassadors feel that they would have benefited by having this?...
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it is called it shows that frack time andably leak over can then contaminate the environment, sicken residents, and exacerbate climate change. >> i name is josh fox. health problems across the u.s., not just the numbers i get you dizzy. >> this is where we eat, sleep, live free at the gas industry -- >> we have found no instance of it harming. >> they want a street fight. >> never underestimate the power of money. you complain about the price of gas, wait into your paying twice that for the price of water. >> that was the trailer of "gasland part ii." documentaryvious was nominated for an academy award. welcome back to democracy now! what did you find in part ii/ talk about the science journal study. huge shale play in california, and the legacy oil field in the center of los angeles which is being drilled and frack right on top of a fault line. the earthquake study showed earthquakes far away on the other side of the planet could trigger bigger earthquakes were they have injection well facilities. they are used for fracking waste. fracking creates an enormous amount of waste. back u
it is called it shows that frack time andably leak over can then contaminate the environment, sicken residents, and exacerbate climate change. >> i name is josh fox. health problems across the u.s., not just the numbers i get you dizzy. >> this is where we eat, sleep, live free at the gas industry -- >> we have found no instance of it harming. >> they want a street fight. >> never underestimate the power of money. you complain about the price of gas, wait into your...
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chris horner is the senior fellow at the center for energy and environment at the competitive enterprise institute, and the author of the book, "red hot lies." >> fox's host, megyn kelly wondered aloud about whether the country even needed to tackle the problem. and cnn's wolf blitzer cut in soon after -- >> all right, so the president making a major, major address on climate change. i want to bring in jim acosta, and the president has got some important news he's about to release -- >> and then wolf continued to talk over the president's remarks. what do you make of that? >> the meta message is more interesting to journalism than the message itself. people -- >> meta message? >> the meta message is, here's grist for combat between different factions. how is it going to play out? rather than the message, which is, here's what's happening to our climate, here's what we have to do to prevent it. that stuff risks being boring. but combat is never boring. what they don't know how to do is to talk about, well, what are our options here, america? how do we mitigate the effects of climate chang
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he didn't grow up in an environment where there were no male examples at all. he didn't grow up where he was worried about the rent, food, if he was sleeping in a room with six other people. he didn't grow up in an environment where he was called names, where there was not enough books in his school, where he had to walk through all sorts of wonderfulness to get to school. so it's not just the absence of the father but the environment that breeds the limited amounts of value and worth when the father is absent. >> that is so valuable to me, that connection between sort of a personal hurt but also the realities of the structures that we exist in. >> that's right. >> i'm a politics person, social movements, that kind of thing. what is the place of personal healing, of finding our own psychological and emotional wellness in the context of building a social and political movement? >> you know what, it's funny. let me just apologize to everybody right now, because i'm getting ready to insult somebody. so i just want to get that out the way. politics doesn't take peo
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we have spent upwards of $20 billion drilling a tunnel at yucca mountain, studying the geology, the environment, my understanding is that the tunnel is completed. in 2010, unilaterally, the obama administration decided to shut the project down and it's debatable whether it was done legally or not. the bill coming out of the appropriations subcommittee, all it does is allocate money that has already been collected to go ahead and finish the site review at yucca mountain to determine whether it is, in fact, a safe place to store high-level nuclear waste. ep in mind, we have over 100 operating nuclear operators around the country today and the waste they generated is stored on site. stored on site. there's good security. most of it is stored in what are called wet pools. almost everybody agrees that it's not a long-term solution. and i think the congress on a bipartisan basis can agree that we ought to go ahead and finish the review of the yucca mountain site, $25 million does it. it has allocated funding in the bill to help the local government entities out there. let's finally put this thing to
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>> we are in a historic low rate environment. it is very favorable for borrowers who want to go out and walk up long-term money and buy that piece of equipment or that building they have been looking at. you know, it is a good environment. small business owners have come a long way. their balance sheets have improved. their cash flows are better. we are in a great position to lend them money. demand, though, continues to be less than robust. lauren: i have to ask you about the fdic. would this equate to one step backwards out after a couple steps forward? >> you know, lori, that just came out overnight. i am not really in a position to comment. our position is to help small businesses grow to succeed. that will continue to be there. lori: thank you so much. robb hilson. adam: we will take a look at other top stories. a deal for $2.4 million. grover also noting the company has a lot to learn. there is one right across the street from each other. anyway, it includes online sales and higher sales of fresh products. they have hit all
>> we are in a historic low rate environment. it is very favorable for borrowers who want to go out and walk up long-term money and buy that piece of equipment or that building they have been looking at. you know, it is a good environment. small business owners have come a long way. their balance sheets have improved. their cash flows are better. we are in a great position to lend them money. demand, though, continues to be less than robust. lauren: i have to ask you about the fdic. would...
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it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell the campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the scientific community supports the technology and if it is a safe as they and the government are sure it is and the argument for g.m. food is quite compelling it would allow farmers to grow crops in tough conditions and thus help to feed hungry mouths around the world the u.s. and brazil already must have produces of the stuff and the british government says the u.k. shouldn't be getting left behind to talk more about this i'm joined by dr robert he's the founder for the alliance for natural health which campaigns against g.m. foods. there are a billion hungry mouths in the world and we're being told that this technology is safe shouldn't we embrace it in that case well if you look at all the real developments in raising eels it hasn't actually occurred through g.m. it's occurred through conventional breeding practices and we know that the european authorities have probably one of the most compr
it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell the campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the scientific community supports the technology and if it is a safe as they and the government are sure it is and the argument for g.m. food is quite compelling it would allow farmers to grow crops in tough conditions and thus help to feed hungry mouths around the world the u.s. and brazil already must...
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but placing a convincing avatar in a persuasive yet manipulable environment was designed for an economic purpose: getting young people to save. >> this study looked at taking an 18-year-old college kid or a and transforms them into the body of someone who's older. >> reporter: specifically, into the body or future self of a 65- year-old, which in my case, the study was designed to see if bonding with their senior selves would cause kids to salt away money for retirement. if i'm a kid looking at the older version of me, the idea is that i'm making a non-conscious connection that will stay with me and change my behavior. >> exactly. you can tell someone you will be older some day but the visceral experience of seeing your image in the mirror as older than you are causes this deep connection to your future self and this is what drives future savings behavior. >> reporter: in fact, in a 2011 paper, bailenson and others reported that those who had seen their future selves in the virtual mirror subsequently put twice as much money into a savings account as those who hadn't. and the research co
but placing a convincing avatar in a persuasive yet manipulable environment was designed for an economic purpose: getting young people to save. >> this study looked at taking an 18-year-old college kid or a and transforms them into the body of someone who's older. >> reporter: specifically, into the body or future self of a 65- year-old, which in my case, the study was designed to see if bonding with their senior selves would cause kids to salt away money for retirement. if i'm a...
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it's a rest day for man and fwod's environment is rest day for the earth. host: steven, thanks for your call. remember the question posted his morning, facebook.com/ cspan. we'll continue about the economy. we're going to hear from the economics correspondent for reuters. we'll look ago the jobs figures and more broadly at the economy. later on, shane goldmacher, the congressional correspondent for national journal. his recent story looks at how some members of congress draw government pensions for previous work in addition to their congressional salaries, a practice known as double dipping. as fit tv and american history tv continue our tour of american cities, this weekend will foe tour bakersfield, california, all weekend long much it's located about 80 miles north of coming up today on book tv, we'll show you all of our programming we gather there, including a look at the story of african-americans who migrated to rural california during the dust bowl years. >> as part of this migration of blacks who did something that no blacks in america -- kind of we
it's a rest day for man and fwod's environment is rest day for the earth. host: steven, thanks for your call. remember the question posted his morning, facebook.com/ cspan. we'll continue about the economy. we're going to hear from the economics correspondent for reuters. we'll look ago the jobs figures and more broadly at the economy. later on, shane goldmacher, the congressional correspondent for national journal. his recent story looks at how some members of congress draw government pensions...
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but if they are doing it in an environment -- i saw it happen to my father, the type of sloppiness i would not expect anywhere else in our economy. since i have joined the board, what i am aware of is that they do not have the right discipline. they do not have the right accountability. i would like them to balance that. i do not think it is either or. we are just entertainers at the end of the day. [laughter] class keep entertaining the crowd. any other questions? >> the guy with the google glasses? >> are you sure you can interrupt yourself and talk to us? [laughter] [indiscernible] [laughter] >> one of the things [indiscernible] dealing with medicare, this results in the best doctors. just ask their patients. does this not cause us to end up having giant hospitals, the hospitals doing a lot of medicare [indiscernible] i am trying to get this in the right spot. are doing well because [indiscernible] other hospitals do well because they can handle the insurance system well. doctors can handle the insurance. >> hospitals do well because they do especially well in places like connecti
but if they are doing it in an environment -- i saw it happen to my father, the type of sloppiness i would not expect anywhere else in our economy. since i have joined the board, what i am aware of is that they do not have the right discipline. they do not have the right accountability. i would like them to balance that. i do not think it is either or. we are just entertainers at the end of the day. [laughter] class keep entertaining the crowd. any other questions? >> the guy with the...
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i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. >>> last night we told you about reported abuses at california state prisons including the illegal sterilization of female inmates and years of solitary confinement for inmates at pelican bay. today, we learned that an estimated 30,000 prison inmates began refusing meals in the largest prison protest in state history. that protest is part of a coordinated effort across the california prison system to end indefinite solitary confinement. state correction officials will not recognize the protest as a hunger strike until inmates have missed nine consecutive meals. we will continue to follow this story as it develops. on everything from home repair to healthcare written by people just like you. no company can pay to be on angie's list, so you can trust what you're reading. angie's list is like having thousands of close neighbors, where i can go ask for personal recommendations. that's the idea. before you have any work done, check angie's list. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- revi
i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment. >>> last night we told you about reported abuses at california state prisons including the illegal sterilization of female inmates and years of solitary confinement for inmates at pelican bay. today, we learned that an estimated 30,000 prison inmates began refusing meals in the largest prison protest in state history. that protest is part of a coordinated effort across the california prison system to end indefinite solitary...
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so fundamentally, you think if you care about the environment, if you care about our health, fundamentally you have to care about workers' rights. you have to care about women's rights. you have to see that unless we all have power together, unless the folks elected by the civil rights movement, women's right movement, labor movement are in office, forget safety in the workplace from chemicals, forget addressing climate change, forget all those things. so i think the first thing that can bring us together is just the fundamental realization that while we have differences and while there are real policy debates once in a while, the underlying balance of power that we need in this country for people's voices to be heard over those of polluters or those who want to profit by making sure today make more money than the workers, we've got to change that balance of power. so i think there's a set of leaders, a set of organizers that are running several institutions now that realize it's not about d.c., it's about being on the ground, it's about shifting the balance of power and realizing how much
so fundamentally, you think if you care about the environment, if you care about our health, fundamentally you have to care about workers' rights. you have to care about women's rights. you have to see that unless we all have power together, unless the folks elected by the civil rights movement, women's right movement, labor movement are in office, forget safety in the workplace from chemicals, forget addressing climate change, forget all those things. so i think the first thing that can bring...
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international investors have pulled out and sold their assets the safest decision in a repartee deteriorating environment for the foreseeable future it looks like egypt will have a government that again is unable to as to policy and as a result unable to provide investors with the confidence that they were going to begin to sing it but here in tokyo square protesters are not sorry the western giants on leaving just most how much i want that i wore a helmet this car leasing businessmen tells us he's fed up. before morsi was ousted . we're begging for the i.m.f. loan of about four point seven billion dollars a year now we don't want it we're all as business men collectively decided to support the egyptian economy and one day we collected over fifteen billion dollars in donations were a large economy we can rely on ourselves but the facts tell a different story for each day these demonstrations continue the egyptian economy is forced to cough up another one billion dollars the ripple effect is more insecurity in an already unstable region if there's anyone benefiting from these revolutions it's people right
international investors have pulled out and sold their assets the safest decision in a repartee deteriorating environment for the foreseeable future it looks like egypt will have a government that again is unable to as to policy and as a result unable to provide investors with the confidence that they were going to begin to sing it but here in tokyo square protesters are not sorry the western giants on leaving just most how much i want that i wore a helmet this car leasing businessmen tells us...
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it is a different environment. it was the mistress of the chief job of the president is to persuade people. it is a lot harder to persuade people today than it was in richard nixon's time. nixons one reason why seems obsessed with the media and what they are saying about him. he knows how powerful an instrument they are for public office. guest is richard norton smith. we're looking at the nixon tapes 40 years after they become became public knowledge. we're airing these on c-span radio during the month of july. you can listen to the recordings anytime online at c-span.org. the next call is from california on the independent line. have a question -- when president johnson was in the white house, i think he was talking to senator dirksen. president johnson knew nixon's thele were messing with promising to get out of the war. if johnson would have brought up, the think it would be possible nixon would never have been president? host: appreciate the call. this is from another viewer about a secret plan. guest: the ide
it is a different environment. it was the mistress of the chief job of the president is to persuade people. it is a lot harder to persuade people today than it was in richard nixon's time. nixons one reason why seems obsessed with the media and what they are saying about him. he knows how powerful an instrument they are for public office. guest is richard norton smith. we're looking at the nixon tapes 40 years after they become became public knowledge. we're airing these on c-span radio during...
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are our environments set up for us to be healthy? can is it hard for us the to be healthy around where we live. what was along the line of diagnosis. are we following up with our diagnosis? a lot of sometimes we know there's a research out there that we as african-american women aren't really following up for many different reasons. and on the treatment side, are we getting the proper treatment? are we getting offered the treatment that we should get offered, because there are disparities that we know providers are not offering african-americans the same type of treatment. that's on the health care side. then you want to also look at what socially determines our health. siam very big in public health. and i feel like those factors actually determine our health way more than what happens within the health care system itself. >> before we even show up at the doctor's office. >> exactly. and so, look, where we live, work, play, and pray, the zip corro code that we live and that you mentioned earlier has a strong determination of how our
are our environments set up for us to be healthy? can is it hard for us the to be healthy around where we live. what was along the line of diagnosis. are we following up with our diagnosis? a lot of sometimes we know there's a research out there that we as african-american women aren't really following up for many different reasons. and on the treatment side, are we getting the proper treatment? are we getting offered the treatment that we should get offered, because there are disparities that...
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tight regulations on genetically modified food with the country's environment secretary saying g.m. farming is actual of the alternatives but despite government ministers apparent enthusiasm for by attack parliament's cafeterias have banned g.m. products from their menus now g.m. products are usually associated with staple crops like corn and rice but can find their way into many items ranging from need to milk and chocolate around ninety percent of all biotech seeds are owned by the u.s. giant mint santo which is accused of stifling small businesses and driving some farmers to ruin and even suicide meanwhile the alarms being raised over the health implications of genetically doctored food ranging from simple allergies to deadly immune system problems are just bully boy who investigates. it's controversial but britain's environment secretary says that the public should embrace genetically modified food is a hard sell the campaign is say it's dangerous to human health whereas the scientific community supports the technology and if it is a safe as they and the government assure it is
tight regulations on genetically modified food with the country's environment secretary saying g.m. farming is actual of the alternatives but despite government ministers apparent enthusiasm for by attack parliament's cafeterias have banned g.m. products from their menus now g.m. products are usually associated with staple crops like corn and rice but can find their way into many items ranging from need to milk and chocolate around ninety percent of all biotech seeds are owned by the u.s. giant...
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the first of which is safety and the second, funding in the current fiscal environment. but i would caution us because if dwight eisenhower or president kennedy had thought about the funding priorities in getting to the moon, they would have said, no. but they didn't. they said, yes. and they were okay not to even live to see that accomplished. our challenge really has to be the same. and if we commit today to reach mars by 2030, we'll have more than a 15-year funding profile for planning and development to meet the challenges of accomplishing a complex mission. and if you think about that kindergartner today, that means that within that child's lifetime that child will get to experience what some of us, what i experienced when we did apollo and gemini and saturn. a 15-year funding window. the major scientific challenge will be to understand the impact of deep space missions on humans. not only will astronauts be traveling for long periods of time in compact space, but during long duration space travel, astronauts will experience dangerous solar storms and galactic cosmi
the first of which is safety and the second, funding in the current fiscal environment. but i would caution us because if dwight eisenhower or president kennedy had thought about the funding priorities in getting to the moon, they would have said, no. but they didn't. they said, yes. and they were okay not to even live to see that accomplished. our challenge really has to be the same. and if we commit today to reach mars by 2030, we'll have more than a 15-year funding profile for planning and...
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goods, services, labor, the environment. there are things that we learn from that that we are trying to do better. host: can a trade agreement be changed? guest: a trade agreement can be changed if the countries that agree to it all agree to that. host: how does that happen? guest: countries use language in the agreement. south korea says that we may be able to accommodate your problem -- south korea says that we may be able to comment your problem, if you accommodate ours. host: you are on the air. caller: all these companies took the jobs to china to avoid taxes and labor laws. clean up the environment. when it took them over there, they were getting one dollar a day. versus, what they were making here in the united states. when united states companies went overseas -- as their headquarters sit the united states -- the only people who seem to benefit from this are the government. these companies are getting off scott free from the destruction of the building that collapsed with the walmart workers. you have another one tha
goods, services, labor, the environment. there are things that we learn from that that we are trying to do better. host: can a trade agreement be changed? guest: a trade agreement can be changed if the countries that agree to it all agree to that. host: how does that happen? guest: countries use language in the agreement. south korea says that we may be able to accommodate your problem -- south korea says that we may be able to comment your problem, if you accommodate ours. host: you are on the...
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as an environment putin doesn't really want this to become a major issue between the united states and russia tensions between the two countries great at the moment and i think this is an issue that both countries could do without now both presidents barack obama and vladimir putin did have a phone conversation late on friday the exact details of what was discussed is unknown but i think it's fair to say that russia will be keen to maybe try and score some simple points over the united states but this doesn't become too much of a thorny issue between the two. i mean while there was a blow as meeting with human rights activists has caused yet another outburst of criticism from washington which directly demands that snowden be handed over these guys nature can reports. the white house has basically accused russia of providing quote a propaganda platform for edward snowden this is washington's reaction to edward snowden's meeting with russian human rights activists at the moscow airport take a listen i would simply say that providing a propaganda platform for mr snowden runs counter to th
as an environment putin doesn't really want this to become a major issue between the united states and russia tensions between the two countries great at the moment and i think this is an issue that both countries could do without now both presidents barack obama and vladimir putin did have a phone conversation late on friday the exact details of what was discussed is unknown but i think it's fair to say that russia will be keen to maybe try and score some simple points over the united states...
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so the creation of environment for the investment is also one of our national priorities. currently, the climate for investment according to international ratings isn't among the top 20, i would say, but i wish we have a chance to get in the same kind of format in five years. i bet we will be in the 20. we are working hard on creating conditions in russia that would be considered by other outside investors as good as in 20 best countries in the world. but even today i think our investment climate is very much underrated, and we are doing much better than some of late. at the same time, also when it comes to russian economy we have enjoyed previous -- [inaudible] fiscal environment. we have accumulated significant reserves. we have two funds, one sovereign fund which is about 40 -- $84 billion and another reserve fund that is another $80-miss -- $80-plus billion. and the national reserves are 500 plus billion dollars as well. we are almost debt-free country because our external debt is no more than 2.5% and including internal debt is around 10, 11%. if you compare it with t
so the creation of environment for the investment is also one of our national priorities. currently, the climate for investment according to international ratings isn't among the top 20, i would say, but i wish we have a chance to get in the same kind of format in five years. i bet we will be in the 20. we are working hard on creating conditions in russia that would be considered by other outside investors as good as in 20 best countries in the world. but even today i think our investment...
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you have got to get your political system working so the you are not creating an environment where it is difficult for the people starting out. do not have a salary for your kids, whenever society is we will have trouble getting a handle on this. the political system is destroying this country. they need to start coughing up their money to take care of this rest -- this mess. if they make more than $10 per hour, they are stealing money from us. thank you for your time. host -- host: the story comes from nashville, tennessee. the question this morning is about the government's role in feeding children. this piece is called driving away hunger. it was photographed by michael williamson. they are looking at a community in rural tennessee and looking at efforts to feed children over the summer months, when they are not in the school. there is a bus that goes around and find the children themselves. there are strict rules about how much food children are given. they have to stay on the bus and eat it there, they cannot take it home with them. we have looked at the numbers in this piece in
you have got to get your political system working so the you are not creating an environment where it is difficult for the people starting out. do not have a salary for your kids, whenever society is we will have trouble getting a handle on this. the political system is destroying this country. they need to start coughing up their money to take care of this rest -- this mess. if they make more than $10 per hour, they are stealing money from us. thank you for your time. host -- host: the story...